Brad Hodge has always been Australia's most unlucky player. His best years were during the era of an overwhelming Australian dominance in cricket and consequently, in spite of averaging 55 over 6 Test...
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Batting stats

M

Inn

Runs

HS

Avg

SR

NO

100

50

4s

6s

Tests

6

11

503

203

55.89

52.12

2

1

2

60

1

ODI

25

21

575

123

30.26

87.52

2

1

3

51

12

T20I

15

11

183

36

26.14

127.08

4

0

0

9

7

IPL

66

63

1400

73

33.33

125.34

21

0

6

122

43

CL

13

11

217

52

27.12

121.91

3

0

1

25

6

Bowling stats

M

Inn

B

Runs

Wkts

BBI

BBM

Econ

Avg

SR

5W

10W

Tests

6

1

12

8

0

8 / 0

8 / 0

4

0

0

0

0

ODI

25

3

66

51

1

17 / 1

17 / 1

4.64

51

66

0

0

T20I

15

3

30

43

1

13 / 1

13 / 1

8.6

43

30

0

0

IPL

66

20

234

303

17

13 / 4

13 / 4

7.77

17.82

13.76

0

0

CL

13

2

18

25

0

10 / 0

10 / 0

8.33

0

0

0

0

ICC Rankings

Batting

Current Rank

Career Best

TEST

--

43

ODI

--

62

Bowling

Current Rank

Career Best

TEST

--

-

ODI

--

-

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Brad Hodge has always been Australia's most unlucky player. His best years were during the era of an overwhelming Australian dominance in cricket and consequently, in spite of averaging 55 over 6 Tests, he has never played again for his country. He was continuously on the fringes of selection, but got his chances only when other senior players injured themselves or were rested.

Hodge started his first class career in 1993, and after scoring more than 10,000 first class runs, he was selected in the squad for the first Test on the India tour in 2004. The opening Test in Bangalore was a toss-up between two debutantes: Hodge and Michael Clarke, and as fate would have it Clarke won the nod of the selectors, went on to score a century and Hodge had to watch Clarke's meteoric rise to stardom from the sidelines.

He finally got his chance in the 2nd test against the West Indies in Hobart in 2005. He scored a solid 60 and gave the selectors a glimpse of what he could contribute to the Test team. His crowning glory came against South Africa in Perth, where he converted his maiden century into a double century, joining a very select list of men to have achieved this landmark. However, after that match, his form remained stagnant in the remaining two tests and he was dropped. He did make a comeback during the West Indies tour of 2008 when Matthew Hayden was injured, scoring a gritty 67 in the first Test, but it was not enough for him to retain his place.

Hodge's run of poor luck on the international stage has extended itself to ODIs too, and he has twice been stranded in the nineties - scoring 99 not out and 97 not out. He did get to a maiden ODI century, achieving the landmark against the Netherlands in the 2007 World Cup. He was picked for the ODI series against India in late 2007, but failed in all the matches, aggregating just 59 runs in 6 innings at a poor strike rate of 54.6. With so much competition for places in the Australian team, that was a death knell for Hodge, and after the afore-mentioned Test against the West Indies, Hodge was out of the international reckoning.

He hasn't experienced too much luck in the IPL too, being part of the Kolkata, who have not shone in the first two editions. He has been amongst the few members of the Knight Riders who have emerged with a clean slate from both IPLs, scoring vital runs for the team.

He may not like the term, but he would probably be termed as Australia's 'What If' guy. Domination has its side effects, and Brad Hodge's career is a case in point. He continues to play for Victoria at first class level, and he was at the forefront of expressing his solidarity to Indian students, following the recent racist attacks on them. He participated in a street match in Melbourne between Victorian Police and Indian students to promote peace.

In the fourth edition of the IPL, he was signed by the Kochi Tuskers Kerala, but for the fifth edition of the Indian Premier League, Rajasthan bought him for 475,000 USD. His base price was 200,000 USD. In the 2013 IPL season, Brad Hodge played a match-winning innings of 54 runs not out off just 29 balls against Hyderabad, coming in after his team had lost 5 wickets for just 57 runs, chasing 133 runs to win, to take Rajasthan into the play-offs.

However he was not retained by Rajasthan for the IPL season 2014, but they bought him in the recently concluded IPL auctions 2014 for Rs 2.4 crores. Hodge was recalled to the Australian T20 side to play against England and was also part of the side that played the 2014 World T20.